Door-hanger.



Nu. 838,710. PATENTED DEG. 18, 1906.

' J. W. HARRIS.

DOOR HANGER.

N1TED STATES PATENT OFFICE DOOR-HANGER.

Specificaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 18, 1906.

Application fiied September 1, 1906. Seral No. 332,959.

T0 aZZ whom it may c0ncern:

Be it k110 wn that I, J AMES WArso HARRIS, a c-itizen of the United States, residing at Ashland, in the county of Ashland and State of Ohio, have invented a new and usefu1 Door-Hanger, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates t0 door-hangers, such as are adapted particularly for use en sliding barn-doors, railroad-car doors, and the 1ike.

The objects of the invention are to improve and sin1plify the construction of sueh devices rurthermore, to increase their efliciency in use and to decrease the expense attending their 1nanufacture.

1/Vith the foregoing and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construetion hereinafter described and claimed, it being understoodthat changes in the precise en1bodirnent of invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of the following claims without departing from the spirit of the invention or sacriiicing any of its advantages.

In the accornpanying drawings, forrning part of this speeification, Figure 1 is a vertica1 section, partly in elevation, through a door equipped with the irnproved hanger of the present invention, the door being shown in its inner or ciosed position. Fig. 2 is a view sirnilar t0 Fig. 1, showing the door in its outer position. Fig. 3 is a view in elevation looking toward the outer side of the improved hanger, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the track men1ber.

Like reference characters indicate corre sponding parts in the diflerent figures of the dra-wings.

The reference-letter A indicates a door, and B a doorcasing. Suitably secured to the door-casing B above the door-opening C therein is a track rnernber D, consisting,pref erab1y, of a bracket, such as shown in Fig. 4, having a vertical approximately wedgeshaped portion 1, having at its lower end a slot 2. Extending downwardly from the iower end of the verticai portion 1 is a hori zontal portion 3, having a beveled 10wer outer edge 4 and an upstanding fin 5. Fitted upon the horizontal portion 3 of the braeket is a shie1d or track 6, having an inverted appr0Xiniate1y U-shaped ortion 7 to receive the upstanding fin 5 of t 1e horizontal portion 3. The inner edge 8 of the shield 6 fits into the slot 2 of the wedge-shaped portion 1, whereby the shield is securely held in posi tion upon one or more of the brackets, as shown.

The reference-nurneral 9 indicates a roller Which is adapted to be moved along the shield 6 for the purpose of moving the door int0 olosed or opened position. Connected with the shaft 10 of the roller 9 is a yoke 11, the outer portion 1.2 of which yoke is extended downward beyond the horizontal portion 3 of the stationary track member D and is rovided with an inwardiyextending shou der 13, adapted to fit under the outer edge of the shield 6, as shown in Fig. 2. Below the shou1der 13 the yoke 11 is formed with an inwardly-extending supporting portion 14, which is inclined, as shown, and is formed at its inner end with an upwardly-extending flange 15. The supporting portion 14 is for1ned in its upper face with an inner depression or groove 16 and an outer depression er roeve 17, the outer groeve 17 being in a higner horizontal plane than the inner groove 16 and the material of the supporting portion 14 being inclined upwardly i'rom the groove 16 to the groeve 17. The supporting portion 14 of the yoke 1.1 is forrned with a transversely-extending slot 18, the outer end of which is eontinued upward a short distance in the outer portion 12 of the yoke 11, as shown in Fig. 3.

Extending across the supporting portion 14 of the yoke 11 is the upper bar 19 of a doorplate 20, Which is suitably secured to the door A, the upper bar 19 of said plate being formed, preferably, by means of a s1t 21 in the p1ate, as shown in Fig. 3. The upper bar 19 is adapted to be seated either in the inner 10Wer groeve of the supporting portion 14 of the yoke 11 or in the outer and higher groeve 17, the arrangement being such that when the upper bar 19 is in the groeve 16 the door A is moved tight against the casing B, as shown in Fig. 1, and When said bar is in the outer groove 17 the door A is moved away from the casing B, as shown in Fig. 2, so that it can be readily s1id along the shield or track 6.

For the purpose of drawing the upper bar 19 outward upon the supporting portion 14 of the yoke 11, so as to cause it to move from the inner groove 16 to the outer groove 17, a link 22 is pivotally connected at its inner end 23 with the upper bar 19 and extends down nected With the lever is a fiexible element 27. The lever 25, which preferably consists of 21 bar of 1netal bent to form a spring-loop 28, is loosely connected with the pivot-pin 26, so as to be capable of a certain amount of loose or 'wabbling movernent thereon, as indicated in Fig. 1. For this reason loy drawing downward upon the flexible element 27 and at the szune time manipulating the same so as to draw the long end of the lever slightly inward toward the door A the opposite end of said lever, Which is connected with the link 22, Will be moved upward and outwerd, thus drawing upon the link 22 and pulliug the upper bar 19 of tl1edoor-plate 20 from the inner groove 16 of the supportijng portion 14 outwerd end upward elong the inclined upper surface of said supporting portion until it drops into the upper and outer groove 17. This movement of course serves to change the door A from the position shown in Fig. 1,

in Which it is fitted closely against the doorcasing B, to the position shown in Fig. 2, in which it is disposed a suflicient distance away from the door-oasing to permit it to be freely 1noved along the track 6. l/Vhen it is desired again to close the door, the operator pushes inward against the upper porticn of sa.id door, so as to cause the upper bar 19 to move out of the groove 17 and slide downward into the groeve 16.

The lower end of the door A preferably is fitted into a groove 29 in the door-sill, said door being for1ned with a beveled lower end outer grooves, a door-platte having a bar, and

a lever having a link connection wth said bar for moving the same trom one of said groovcs to the other.

2. A door-hanger comprising e track member, a roller 1nounted on said track 1nember, a yoke connected with said roller and having .a supporting portion for1ned with outer and inner grooves arranged in different horizontal planes, a door-plate having a bar extending across said supporting portion, and a lever mounted upon said yoke and having a link connection With the bar of said doorplate f0r 1noving the same from one of the grooves of the yoke to the other of said grooves.

3. A door-hanger comprising a track member, a roller mounted on said track mcn1ber and having a yoke provided with an inclned supporting portion l1aving en inner and an outer groeve arranged in dillerent horizontal planes and a transverse slot, a doorplate having a loer extending across seid supporting portion, a link connected With said bar and extending through said transverse slot, and a lever loosely fulcrumed on said yoke end connected with said link for moving said bar fron1 one of said grooves to the other.

4. A door-hanger comprising atrack member consisting 01' e bracket having a vertical, approximately Wedge-shaped portion for1ned at its lower end witha slot, a horizontal portion extending outwardly from the lower end of the wedge-shaped portion and having an upstanding fin, and a shield having a U shaped portion to receive the fin; 2L roller mounted on said shield, a yoke engaging the roller and having its outer portion extended downward beyond the horizontal portion of the brecket end having en nwardly-extending shoulder fitted beneath the outcr edge of said shield, the lower portion of said yoke being extended inwardly and downwardly on an incline to form e supporting portion having en upstanding flange at its inner end, en in ner and an outer groeve in diflerent horizontal planes, and a transverselyextending slot; a door-plate having en upper bar extending aoross the supporting portion of the yoke, a link pivotally connected with the bar and eX- tending through the slot in the yoke, and a lever fulcrurned loosely on the outer portion of the yoke and connected with the link for moving the upper bar of the door-platte from the inner groove of the yoke into the outer groove.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed 1ny signature in the presence of two wtnesses.

J AMES WATSON I-IARRIS.

Witnesses E1). FLAHERTY, GEO. HART. 

